Apologetics – Defending the Faith is a video based series produced by our church body featuring Professor Michael Berg from Wisconsin Lutheran College.
Apologetics is narrowly defined as “defending the Christian faith by reason with gentleness and respect.” The Apostle Peter writes:
“Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect, keeping a clear conscience, so that those who speak maliciously against your good behavior in Christ may be ashamed of their slander. 1 Peter 3:15-16
Our goal here is to get ourselves to think clearly. When we think clearly, we will speak clearly. All this is with the goal of love towards neighbor.
Everyone is welcome to attend this mid week study. We’ll use Zoom for our meeting. HERE is the link.
LESSON #1: Introductions to Apologetics
1. The Four L’s and What is Apologetics?
2. Faith and Reason
3. Limitations, Goals, and Advice
LESSON #2: How would a philosopher look at the evidence?
1. Worldviews and why they are important
2. Cosmological Argument
3. Anthropological Argument
LESSON #3: How would an historian look at the evidence?
1. The Resurrection Claim and Circular Logic
2. A Biographical Test
3. The Chain of Custody between Bible events and books
LESSON #4: How would a lawyer look at the evidence?
1. Applying the Internal Test
2. Applying the External Test
3. The use of Prophecy
LESSON #5: How would a scientist look at the evidence?
1. Understand the importance of Scientific Terms
2. An Argument from Design
3. Are we Soul and Body?
LESSON #6: How would an artist look at the evidence?
1. It’s about Beauty & Epicness
2. The Problem of Evil
3. The Story of Job